11/20/2022 0 Comments Outlander episodes recap![]() Elsewhere on the dial, Game of Throneshas been criticized a lot of for its depiction of rape, and it’s largely because it’s an act used as a plot point, not as an emotional watershed. The level of emotional devastation wrecked upon him left him at first catatonic, then violent and delirious, and ultimately suicidal. A good portion of “To Ransom a Man’s Soul” was dedicated to giving Jamie’s trauma its due. To Outlander’s credit, though, it did not just end things with the crime itself. The finale’s depiction of rape in its many forms was incredibly brutal, and surely would not have been shown with that same amount of prolonged brutality had it been a man and a woman. That is what tormented Jamie the most, because it was a scene of drugged, twisted, confused emotions and more sexual torment. ![]() As Jamie says to Claire, it wasn’t just that Randall raped him, which he did. What made all of this even darker and more difficult to bear was that it went beyond a forced sexual assault. He also made Jamie brand himself with Randall’s initials as a final, dehumanizing blow. Surely he had thought that so long as Claire was safe, he only had to make it to the end and he would be rewarded with a clean death.īut Randall had done several things to torture Jamie beyond the physical, like “bringing Claire” into the proceedings, and then using that to shame Jamie over what had transpired between him and Randall. But Randall then denying him his request to be killed quickly was the final crushing blow to his spirit. It was enough to see Jamie lying like a corpse next to Randall, his eyes dead from the trauma he had experienced. The season’s penultimate episode was largely constructed around Jamie’s imprisonment and torture at the hands of Black Jack, but “To Ransom a Man’s Soul” took us back and fleshed out, literally, what most viewers could have just imagined. ![]() ![]() There are many things to unpack about “To Ransom a Man’s Soul,” but let’s start with the choice to revisit further what happened between Black Jack Randall and Jamie. Outlander’s first season ended with, to quote a friend, “50 minutes of torture, and 5 minutes of happiness” (more or less). ![]()
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